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The Illusion of Borders by JonnyMarch
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
11 Jul 2025
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This story is an alternate continuation of my completed work We Can’t Choose Us.
Chapters 1–16 are exactly the same as in that version, so if you’ve already read them, you can start right here.
But if you’re new to the story, I recommend starting from the beginning for the full emotional context.
📖 You can read Chapters 1–16 here:
https://archiveofourown.to/works/62580298/chapters/160180546In this version, I changed one decision, and it led to a very different ending.
Because so many of you asked for it. Because so many of you believed they deserved more.Series
- Part 2 of The Illusion of Borders
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Beginnings Don’t Come With Endings by Deranged_Rat_Pancake
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Avatar: The Last Airbender
09 May 2025
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Polygamy isn’t exactly an uncommon practice in the Fire Nation, especially since the start of the War.
Knowing that didn’t lessen the shock when she received the letter.
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Good Game (go to hell!) by bootyshaker97
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
07 Apr 2025
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Zuko and Sokka would do a fist-fight in a Walmart parking lot.
Dragon and Boom would work together to win Gladiator Showdown.
Unfortunately, neither realizes they’re the same person until one of them rage-quits mid-argument and accidentally yells the other’s gamertag in real life.
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somebody to love by dontburnout, lizzythefinallyrealizedlesbian
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
30 Mar 2025
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a modern atla, college AU where sokka and zuko meet at a frat party because there is this giant asshole who won't leave zuko alone. aang works at an animal shelter, katara is in pre-med, toph is the local plug—oh did i mention they’re all massive stoners?
let’s see how zuko and sokka go from strangers to friends to idiots to lovers!
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The Secrets Of The Crown by AuroraAthena
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
03 Mar 2025
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Lady Myru has dedicated her entire life to three people:
Ursa, her friend.
Zuko, her charge.
Azula, her other charge.Now, she dedicates herself to one thing: getting Zuko together with his little crush.
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- Part 3 of The Fire Crown
- Language:
- English
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- 785
- Chapters:
- 1/?
- Kudos:
- 4
- Hits:
- 137
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The Burden Of The Crown by AuroraAthena
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
03 Mar 2025
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Long before Firelord Zuko, there was Prince Zuko, heir to the throne—and before that, before Agni Kais and Avatar hunts, there was a young boy struggling to find his place in the world.
The events of 'The Weight of the Crown'—and the years leading up to it—as seen through Zuko's eyes.
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- Part 2 of The Fire Crown
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The Weight of the Crown by AuroraAthena
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
26 Feb 2025
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Five years stretch between Sokka and that fateful Agni Kai, each one pulling him closer to this moment—the day he finally returns to the Fire Nation. To Zuko. The ambassador position had practically fallen into his lap, and if anyone suggests he'd campaigned relentlessly for it, well... that's pure speculation. This is about diplomacy. Obviously.
But the Fire Nation that greets him isn't the one he left behind. New faces crowd the palace halls, circling around Zuko like moth-wasps to flame. One figure stands apart—Advisor Wang. She commands the court's attention with effortless grace, and more importantly, she stands where Sokka once stood: at Zuko's side.
But this is fine, right? They're just friends. It's good. It's fine.
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- Part 1 of The Fire Crown
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“That’s ridiculous,” the prince says, avoiding his eyes and blushing. “You’re ridiculous. What are you even doing?”
“Flirting with you. I thought that was obvious?”
The prince blushes harder. He really is quite sweet, like a little tigerdillo kitten trying to act fierce. Sokka may have to keep him.
Instead of trying to fight Zuko during the second episode, Sokka does the one thing he’s actually good at- He flirts.
Poor Zuko doesn’t stand a chance.
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- Part 1 of The Prince and the Liar
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I Am Proud Of You, And All You Will Become by HarmlessHagoftheWoods
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
10 Sep 2024
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Collapsing back against the stone, the wind knocked out of his chest, Zuko lost sight of the fight as Azula lite the courtyard on fire. He could feel the heat beating down on him, but there was nothing he could do as the flames continued to needle at anything it could devour. The pulsing in his chest grew faster, faster, faster, faster, faster, faster…..
His heart stopped.
The heat left his body. He was cold, like the quiet embers of a long-smoldered flame. The Fire Nation courtyard was no longer burning around him; the courtyard wasn’t even there at this moment. He stood in a mist coated swamp, with towering overgrown trees bloating out the milky blue sky above. There was silence; a silence so deafening it brought a ringing to his ears. Zuko’s hand grasped the front of his tunic. The fabric was whole, and the skin underneath was unblemished, no sign of the lightning strike that had seared through his chest.
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The lightning struck through Zuko's chest, a moment later he awoke in the Spirit world. Someone was waiting for usher him back where he belonged.
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- Part 6 of Zuko's Interactions With Spirits
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Zuko Ask Aang to marry him ‘cause the monk has made his life better.
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It was thought to be common knowledge that the soul was split into two halves- good and bad. In reality, one's self is split into three parts; the mind, the spirit, and the body.
Ursa knew this, which is why she knew the Blue Dragon would be her only option for saving Zuko. She did not expect the fate that befell her and she certainly did not expect to never see her boy again.
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Or in which Zuko has two dragons in his head while trying to navigate the chaos that is his life. Oh and sometimes he’s a dragon. He’s still not sure how to control that.Sokka is just along for the ride
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- Part 2 of pretty little monster chronicles
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"Must of been a hell of a training accident." Sokka laughed a little.
That's when Zuko became 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 shocked.
"You believed that?" he asked, referring to his makeshift excuse he'd handed the gaang one time.
"We had nothing else to go off of." Aang shrugged.
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Where Zuko is hurting and opens up to his non-informed friends.Series
- Part 1 of The Gaang is Zuko's therapist :)
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For as long as he could remember, Zuko has been in competition with his younger sister. She was a natural prodigy excelling at everything she did while he had to struggle and fight in order to succeed. While Azula was a natural violinist who got into Juillard while Zuko struggled at Berkley. Five years later, Azula is first chair at the New York Philharmonic and Zuko is struggling for a seat in symphonies while working at his uncle's coffee shop. All that changes when he meets a blue eyed Saxophone player who came to his Uncle's Jazz night.
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Where I Want to Be by through-the-stars-to-the-pavement (delicate_mageflower)
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
31 May 2022
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"'The fog was where I wanted to be.'" Everything is different. The pitch of his voice, his posture. The auditorium goes silent. No one can take their eyes off of him.
…He's amazing.
Zuko had to perfect the art of acting as a child to survive the horrors of his homelife. When he got older, it was only natural to take his talent to the stage for entertainment and escape.
Enter Sokka, a craftsman and set designer with a giant heart who is haunted by plenty of ghosts of his own.
A tale of trauma, disability, family, creativity, and love.
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- Part 1 of You Can Have My Everything
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In the aftermath of the 100 year war, Zuko struggles to figure out how to best bring the Fire Nation together.
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Zuko just wants to live his life in peace, but after a horrible fire broke out in his home when he was eleven years old, the gossip mill around town got out of control and blamed Zuko for the fire that permanently scarred his face. A few years later, when their school burns down, several students claim he was the cause of it, officially branding him as the town firebug.
Now at the age of 24, working in his Uncle's cafe, Zuko is burdened by an accusation he was innocent of and is followed around by claims of arson when a string of suspicious fires breaks out over the span of several years. Officer Zhao is determined to arrest the young man on these unfounded charges, meanwhile Sokka and the rest of the Southern Water Fire Department believe Zuko's pleas of innocence. Determined to get to the bottom of this once and for all, and free Zuko of eight years of blame so that he can finally try to move on and live a peaceful life, Chief Hakoda, Lieutenant Bato and Sokka may discover much more than they bargained for and just may put Zuko's life at stake.
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- Part 1 of The Blue Spirit Presents:
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Book One: Augmentum by Lone_Wolf_Fanfics
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types
11 Sep 2021
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Rana is the adopted daughter of Zhao and a traitor to the Fire Nation following a realisation of how Zhao came to find her. Seeing the Fire Nation for what it truly is, Rana abandons it and heads off in search of the Avatar to see through her destiny to become the legendary True Elemental.
Avatar: The Last Airbender x Pokemon crossover
Zuko pairing.
Set during Book One/Season One: Water
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- Part 1 of True Elemental
- Part 1 of Avatar: The Last Airbender
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Piandad and the one who isn't the Firelord by Silvy_Chane
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
24 Aug 2021
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After the war Piandao decided to teach the young adult that presented himself at his doorstep, he seemed like a decent guy that might have some potential ( the actual reason was that without the war he was starting to get bored, even if his 'activities' with his lover helped ).
What he didn't expect was his lesson to be interrupted by a very sleepy and stressed teenager.
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Is it a good idea to casually sleep with your crush of 10 years? (No definitely not) by orphan_account
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
22 Jul 2021
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“And obviously you’re attractive. I mean dude, you’re hot as fuck. And I mean I wouldn’t say that I'm too bad either,” Sokka paused again, looking to Zuko for a response.
Now this was getting weird, first Sokka had brought up their sexualities and now he was calling him attractive, Zuko was really starting to internally panic, “Yes Sokka you’re attractive, now is there a point to all this or…”
“Zuko, Zuko, please. I’m getting to it ok. Ok so basically I was thinking that to pass the time and to not be so constantly bored, we could have sex.”
Zuko froze. There was no way he said that. There was no way his best friend and guy that he’s had a secret crush on for ten whole years would say that. What kind of question was that? What did it imply? Why was everything so loud and why was his head moving so fast? Zuko took a deep breath, swallowed, and met Sokka’s eyes.
“Sorry, what?”
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Sokka is unbelievably bored in quarenteen and decides that the only way to solve his boredom is to start a sexual relationship with his best friend.
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Zuko tells Suki.
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- Part 5 of Little Zuko